After a while at the State Medical Office, Zhou Xuan felt bored and wanted to see the appearance of Jiangzhou City, the purpose of his coming to the State Medical Department has been achieved, the wonderful appearance just now will spread all over the streets and alleys of Jiangzhou in less than an hour, the son-in-law of the Qin Mansion is decided, of course, this is only the surface work, and then he has to find a way to get Miss Qin's heart, it is very difficult.

Dr. Qin asked Jia Ding Laifu to accompany Zhou Xuan shopping, and told him to wait for his aunt and then go back to the house directly, and Dr. Qin himself would not go back at noon, because he would go to Hukou with some officials from Jiangzhou to meet the Tang Palace draft envoy.

Zhou Xuan shook the folding fan and strolled through the streets of Jiangzhou, only to see a forest of shops, a prosperous market, and a peaceful and prosperous world.

Li Yu lightly endowed the people, Jiangnan was originally a rich land, in the past 30 years, the GDP has increased several times, the people's living standards have improved significantly, the Huainan area was originally occupied by the Song State of the fourteen states have returned to the Southern Tang Dynasty, the current territory of the Southern Tang Dynasty includes the whole territory of Jiangxi and Anhui, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangsu, Fujian Province five provinces of the majority, the territory is vast, the population is tens of millions, faintly superpower, but Li Yu has no ambition to dominate, as long as other countries do not come to invade, he has to get by, protect the territory and the people.

Zhou Xuan asked: "Laifu, what are the interesting places around here?" ”

Laifu said: "Uncle, turn past from this road, there is a Pingkang Fang not far from Nengren Temple, which is the golden cave in Jiangzhou City, commonly known as Qinglou Street, where it is very fun. ”

Zhou Xuan's eyes widened, he closed the folding fan and knocked it hard on Laifu's head, and scolded: "You are a dead family, you can't do it if you want to harm Aunt Ben, although Aunt Ben is romantic, she is not obscene, how can you go to a brothel today when you got married yesterday?" When I go home next time, I will tell my mother-in-law, and I will say that you instigated me to prostitute in a vain attempt to corrupt the young and promising new aunt! ”

Laifu was frightened and begged for mercy.

Zhou Xuan said: "It's okay to ask Uncle Ben to let you go, you have to answer truthfully if I ask you, remember, confess leniently, and resist strictly." ”

Laifu nodded like garlic: "Yes, yes, yes." ”

"Laifu, do you often go to Napingkangfang?"

"—no, not often, once in a while."

"How about the fees there, can you afford it for a family like you?"

"If you go back to my uncle, the girls there are divided into three, six, nine and so on, of course, Laifu can only find the cheap one, and every time I go, I get a five-percent discount, as long as two hundred wen is enough."

"Wow." Zhou Xuan shouted: "I will give you a discount, are you very handsome?" ”

Jiading Laifu's face is colorful: "Laifu is a frequent customer, so there are naturally discounts." ”

"Smack", Laifu slapped his head again, "Idiot, just now I said that I went once in a while, and now I say that I am a regular visitor, and I can't lie." ”

Laifu opened his mouth and looked stupid.

Zhou Xuan asked: "How much money do you have on you now?" ”

Laifu hurriedly took out a small half of the money and said, "It's just two hundred yuan." ”

Zhou Xuan put the two hundred yuan in his hand and checked it, the hundred yuan was quite heavy, and he threw it back to Laifu, thinking: "My brother is penniless now, and he is more dignified, of course he is embarrassed to ask his father-in-law, otherwise he will be looked down upon by Miss Qin, and I have to find a way to earn some extra money." ”

"Laifu, is the gambling industry in Jiangzhou City underdeveloped? It's gambling, I don't like pushing pai gow and rolling dice, it's too indecent, and there is no gambling here, it's Go. ”

When Zhou Xuan was studying in the Chinese Department of Nanchang University, he was expelled for playing chess.

Laifu said: "Wow, uncle, are you a Go master?" ”

Zhou Xuan smiled and didn't answer, looking unfathomable, thinking: "I have an amateur four-dan certificate issued by the Provincial Chess Association, and I have won the third place in the municipal competition. However, when it comes to the experience of playing chess, I am very rich, with good psychological quality, and many off-board moves, even if I am an amateur sixth, I dare to fight with him. ”

Laifu said: "The festival makes Lord Lin and Lord Xu love Go, and both Lin Mansion and Xu Mansion have dozens of Qing guests who play chess, and chess gambling is everywhere. ”

"Laifu, lead the way, Uncle Ben is going to play chess, and if you win, I will reward you with 200 Wen, and you can go to Pingkangfang one more time."

Laifu peeked at his uncle's face, not as if he was mocking him, so he led the way and said, "Laifu knows that there is a big chess club on the Pipa Pavilion, called Fangyuan Society. ”

An uncle, a family member, and two people walked east along the south bank of the Xiaoxunyang River, walking and walking, Zhou Xuan suddenly stopped.

"Laifu, did you hear any voices?"

Laifu looked around, on the left is the small Xunyang River with a soothing flow, and on the right is a wooden building along the coast, the sound is there, but nothing special.

Zhou Xuan listened intently for a while, and then heard a quick and short insect chirp, and suddenly became excited: "Haha, it's crickets, there are fighting crickets here." ”

Laifu looked at the new aunt dancing and said strangely: "Fighting crickets, this is very common, as soon as the summer is over, the crickets have come out, our Tang Kingdom from the emperor to the grass people, there is no one who does not fight crickets, it is more popular than Go, and there are cockfights, goose fights, quail fights, as long as you can distinguish the winner from the loser, you can fight anything." ”

Zhou Xuan couldn't keep his mouth shut, and felt that he had crossed over to a good place, and he liked to play these, and now he finally had a chance to show his ambitions.

Speaking of fighting crickets, Zhou Xuan also participated in several fighting cricket competitions before he crossed, but at that time he was just a college student, no funds and no time, a lot of paper talk, little actual combat, and never caught a good cricket at the rank of lieutenant or above.

Zhou Xuan is familiar with all kinds of cricket spectrums, such as the Southern Song Dynasty Jia Nidao's "Promoting Weaving Sutra", Yuan Hongdao's "Promoting Weaving Chronicles" in the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Congyan's "Cricket Illustrated Book" of the Qing Dynasty, and the "Insect King Heterogeneous Secret Spectrum" written by an anonymous person, these books are not visible to the Southern Tang Dynasty, so he has a knowledge advantage.

"Laifu, let's not go to the chess club first, let's watch the crickets."

Laifu is a native of Jiangzhou, very familiar, took Zhou Xuan to a nearby three-story wooden building called "Mufeng Building", strange, there is no door on the first floor, but on one side of the stairs spiraling straight to the top floor of the third floor, there are many people on the top floor, there are standing and sitting, drinking tea and chatting, very leisurely.

A young man dressed as a guy saw Zhou Xuan and the others coming up, came over and greeted him, "If this boy wants to watch the worm bet, please go to the second floor." ”

It turned out that there was another staircase leading to the second floor in the building, Zhou Xuan and Ding Laifu went down to the second floor to see, there were also many people here, two guys one wore blue and one wore green, each holding two signs standing on both sides of the staircase, two signs were written in ink, and the handsome and free Ouyang Xun Xing calligraphy.

The blue-shirted guy's sign reads - "Dongwu Ganning, seven wins and zero losses, ten to five." ”

The sign of the green-shirted guy reads - "Nameless fierce general, zero wins and zero losses, ten to twenty." ”

Haha, gambling on crickets, and using the Three Kingdoms General as the name, it's fun and fun.

Zhou Xuan said to the blue-shirted guy: "I want to see the worm and then bet." ”

The blue-shirted man hung the sign in his hand on the wall and said, "Childe, please come with me." Pushing open a door on the left, there was a square room, undecorated, in the middle of the house was a round wooden table, on the wooden table were placed two incense burner-shaped Yue kiln celadons, and on each porcelain basin was a small yellow note, which was written about the two big names of the crickets about to start the war, the Eastern Wu Ganning and the unknown general.

Seven or eight people were looking around the table into the celadon basin.

The blue-shirted guy whispered, "Please don't talk, please walk lightly, don't startle these two generals." ”

Zhou Xuan nodded and said, "I know." "If the crickets before the decisive battle are frightened, they will avoid the battle, and they will not recover in half a day.

Zhou Xuan asked Laifu to wait outside, he walked in, looked in from the shoulders of the two onlookers, and there was a square-headed black-faced cricket lying quietly at the bottom of the celadon basin on the left, with six legs white and flawless, two large pincers were dark red, and the wings were pale golden.

Zhou Xuan carefully identified this cricket, according to the eyesight he cultivated from various cricket atlases, the level of this cricket is almost colonel-level, colonel-level crickets are already quite rare, no wonder it can win seven battles and seven victories, and earn a lot of money for its owner.

Look at the other one, dizzy, this is just what's going on, the sign says zero wins and zero losses, it should be a new insect that has not been played in public, but the two filamentous tentacles on its head are broken, and it looks cringe, what kind of fierce general is this, the body size is not as good as "Dongwu Ganning" Xiuwei, but the level does not seem to be low, and it is also a good insect at the major level, but it is still incomparable with the colonel-level "Dongwu Ganning", and the momentum is much worse, this is definitely a one-sided game.

Zhou Xuan made up his mind, walked out of the small room, and spread his hands: "Come to Fu, pay for it." ”

Laifu handed over the 200 coins strung together to Zhou Xuan, and asked, "Uncle, has you seen it, which one to bet on?" "I'm a little worried, if he loses the bet, then his money for prostitution this night will be wasted, and he is distressed.

Zhou Xuan smiled silently, walked to the west counter and prepared to place a bet, seeing that in just five minutes, the odds of the "nameless general" have fallen to ten to thirty, and "Dongwu Ganning" has become ten to three.

When placing bets, Zhou Xuan was told by the guy at the counter that each person should make at least ten bets, and each bet would be 100 Wen, and Zhou Xuan was only 200 Wen and was not qualified to bet.

Zhou Xuan scratched the back of his head, it was too embarrassing, finding that there was not enough money when gambling was the most shameless thing, it was simply a disgrace.

"Hey, isn't this Dr. Qin's fast son-in-law, why can't he even take out a thousand Wen, do I want to lend it to you?"

Zhou Xuan didn't expect that there were still people here who knew him, and when he turned his head, he saw that it was a guy with oily hair and noodles who was shouting at the door of the state medical office just now for Miss Qin's treatment.

Zhou Xuan ignored him, lifted his robe and pulled out the blues harmonica in his butt pocket and said, "I use this overseas treasure, the eight-tone treasure qin, as collateral." Raise it to your lips and a beautiful melody flows from the harmonica.